’91 Paul Bissex has been living in and around Northampton, Massachusetts, since 1992. After many years of freelance work in magazine design, technology journalism, and web development, he now works at the Hallmark Institute of Photography. Despite the fact that it is a vocational/technical program, it often makes Paul think of his days as a Bard student; it also makes him feel that he is somehow part of Leon’s crusade to subvert traditional secondary schooling.
Mary Mason, Jennifer (Hauer) Vinsky ’86, and Alison Fennell Vaccarino ’87
’87 20th Reunion: May 25–27, 2007 Contacts: David Avallone, ednoon@aol.com; Eva Lee, eva@evaleestudio.com; Gary Mosca, gmosca@aol.com; Chris Pennington, xjpenn@earthlink.net; Raissa St. Pierre, stpierre@bard.edu Staff contact: Sasha Boak-Kelly, 845-758-7407 or boak@bard.edu Garrett Hicks’s company, Will Entertainment, manages film and television writers, animation artists, book authors, and illustrators, most of whom are writing for children’s or family audiences.
’89 Peter Criswell is acting director of the Port Program for the Scholar Ship. He codesigns experientially based port programs for a transnational, university-level, semester-long campus at sea, which travels to eight countries on five continents, for 700-plus participants engaged in intercultural leadership development. Peter also runs his own consulting business, facilitating workshops and retreats that focus on organizational development and team building. His e-mail is petercriswell@yahoo.com. Chris Steussy was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 2004 and traveled to Ireland with his wife, Norma, and their kids, Isabella (6) and Calvin (4). His research focused on what is often referred to as the “Irish Potato Famine” and questioned whether its principal cause was an act of nature or public policy. Chris started teaching a Theory of Knowledge class in 2006 at San Diego High School, along with the history course he has taught for the last few years. He has been smoke-free for more than six years and is learning to surf.
’90 Class correspondent: Francie Soosman, fsoosman@hvc.rr.com
Nina DiNatale Miller has relocated to Brussels, where she is a program officer with an organization made up of members of parliaments throughout Europe who are advocates of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Bard alumni/ae passing through Brussels can reach her at ninalmiller@yahoo.com. Teal Bossung Rothschild was granted tenure and promotion to associate professor in the Sociology Department at Roger Williams University in May 2006. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband, Louis, and their son, Quinn. She can be reached at trothschild@rwu.edu.
’92 15th Reunion: May 25–27, 2007 Contacts: Lisa Sanger Blinn, lisablinn@yahoo.com; Simon Campbell, simon@simoncampbell.com; Melissa Cahoon Chevallier, melisslc@adelphia.net; Roberta Harper-MacIntosh, shaledragon@yahoo.com; Josh Kaufman, jkaufman100@nyc.rr.com; Andrea J. Stein, stein@bard.edu Staff contact: Sasha Boak-Kelly, 845-758-7407 or boak@bard.edu
Class correspondent: Andrea J. Stein, stein@bard.edu Chidi Achebe, M.D., Dartmouth ’96; M.P.H., Harvard ’04, is working toward an M.B.A. in Yale University School of Management’s Leadership in Healthcare program. Chidi’s appointment in his early 30s as medical director of the Whittier Street Health Center in Boston made global headlines. He has appeared on television programs such as Basic Black and on WUMB radio’s Commonwealth Journal, and has been profiled in the Boston Globe and interviewed by the Nigerian press. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. In 2006 Mallory Catlett directed The Sewers at the OntologicalHysteric Theater in New York City and at the Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival in Ireland. Also in 2006, Juggernaut Theatre, which she directs, presented Oh What War, which reimagines Joan Littlewood’s World War I musical Oh What a Lovely War, at HERE’s annual Culturemart festival and at the Prelude Festival at the Segal Theatre, CUNY, both in New York City. In December 2005, Morgan Cleveland started a new job as school administrator for the East Bay Waldorf School, a private San Francisco Bay Area K–12 school. Who knew Dr. Mitchell
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